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room, remember? \ But...but... but... certainly you remember. Whadja -think I thought all the commotion was, another temporary inconvenience by ‘the Indianapolis Power & Light Co.? Immediately the nostrils begin to dilate, the breath comes in short takes, the feet get" itchy.

Growing pains 4 Comtruction is so close fo home it was almost missed by a feller with - 20-20 vision.

pounding above, below, on all sides becomes °

have plenty of elbow room. It still wasn't the floor I wanted to see. ‘ The second floor was a series of “The edi-

way over here, the editor's office right there . ..” “Is there a space, a provision . . , sort of an office earmarked for—me?” Heck, I was just curious. nl ! Mr. Ginsberg said, “Of course, you're kidding.” I said of course. fi My heart sank while the third floor, all brand new, was pointed out on the blue paper. Photo engraving here, camera room there, zinc-etching room over there . . . peachy. I don’t care, I'd seldom use an office anyway.

‘You Should Hear I’ ; ON WHAT is the roof and what soon will be the floor of another. story, we found workmen tearing up parapets, constructing column forms and uncovering the tops of columns. Mr. Ginssaid the work was progressing nicely. It looked to me as if the men were just tearing the place down. In the back, Leonard Hubbard, Smith & Johnson, Inc., foreman, was directing the operations of the compressed air pile driver. It's a threeton gadget that pounds a 24-foot steel piling 22 feet into the ground. Noisy, man, it's noisy. Carry Toney, who operates the throttle on the .compressed air, said the pounding didn’t bother him. Bill Ehresman on the crane was on the side of his fellow worker. “We have a pile driver twice as big as this one,” said Mr. Hubbard, “you should hear it.” “Come around when we're pouring the concrete,” urged one of the men. “You don’t want to miss when we take out the pilings after the foundation is in,” said another. “Be sure and be here when we start installing the new presses,” added Mr. Ginsberg. The thing for me to do is get a job as a brick-

layer or a plumber ‘or something. No, better not,

the boss wants a good building. |

| Blood Cousins

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Jan. 21—Well it ain't the raise that riles me up because everybody knows how things have riz like bacon and eggs and ‘bourbon whisky and you got to pay a servant a young fortune to get the beds made and the dirt swept under the carpet. Besides it's a big job and you don’t--want your President wearing patched pants and resoling his shoes twice a’ year. i I figure if the man is worth 75 grand back in the days when a dollar had some dignity and you could keep some of it, then he's sure worth 100 G's today when the income tax boys nibble it: right down to small change, : But whén you start to pass a taxfree 50 grand under the table to your own elected President, like he was a movie star charging suits to the hotel bill so he can beat the big brackets, or like he was some sort of black marketeer taking his dough in unmarked cash under the counter, well, I say it sets a kind of poor example for Harry's constituents. It's an admission that not even a President can live under the present tax structure.

Big House and Fleet of Cars

HARRY GETS a great big house and a fleet of cars and a couple of airplanes and all the help he needs, for free. He gets his repairs and utilities, Congress now gives him 100 grand plus personal nontaxable bonus of 50 thousand fish as a tip. Anything he don’t spend he can sock away in the china pig. There is a ruling in the book somewhere which says no free-born American is immune from the annual tax bite, which helps to keep the army fed and run the government and press grand gifts on every baggy-kneed nation that sticks out its hand and makes a noise like a potential commie, “This glorious equality before the law makes every man as good as a President, and every President no better than a man, Now the law is so set on this glorious equality, this truly American share-the-wealth plan, that it will put you right in the jailhouse if you don't turn in a detailed rundown on what you made.

When you say so-and-so much went for legitimate business expenses, such as blonds for -gen-

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® ® Xe, = es ©) RUSWILLE N Ton @ oREENSAURS COLUMBUS . AONE While only 10 per cent of all traffic accidents are believed caused by road conditions, often combine with the human element to bring tragedy. The driver of oo lost ' i ris olyincenes the center girder of this bridge on State Rd, 38. The bridge collapsed. 2 8). MAD! : . LOUISVILLE : > EVANSVILLE

» Like a contagious disease, these grinning skulls of death will spread over this map of Indiana as each post of the state police system is covered for "murdei on the highways." Added today is e Pendleton Post.

erals in charge of airplane procurement, the audi-| _&

tor wants a record. And he just won't listen kindly to any windy recitals about how the first 50 thou don’t count in the total tab. The man says it all counts, and the more you got, the more they whack. = X Well it seems to me that a President is the symbblic John. Doe of this land of glorious ity, and, like the head of any house, set the sterling example for his naughty, kiddies. This new thing is sort of like to stay out of the cookie

Je SE them catch the old man with his arm in the

when mama ain't looking.

Blood Cousin to Dummy Concerns

THE GOOD. LORD knows that another 50 grand won't sink a 42-billion-buck budget, which Mr. Truman has just demanded, but it is apt to start the kids wondering if what preacher says is what preacher does. 1 mean, here the boy just gets through telling his friends how he is going to jack up the taxes and start rendering middle incomers loose from their fat, and then they throw a bill giving daddy 50 thousand he don’t have to tell his Uncle about. This expense account business, where you don’t have to say what you spent and what you kept, is nothing but a blood cousin to the dummy corporation, the cash payment, and the padded swindle sheet that the big, crooked money makers used to cheat the government of its rightful sliceful. It don’t look right on a President. If Papa Truman expects his mischievous, irre-

sponsible children to find real joy in giving away

what they make, for Chinese generals that can’t) happened. fight and such like, he better declare that his fresh

50 is open to tax expenses after his expenses are deducted. It's the only way he can make his minfons dance and.sing on Mar. 15, when the collector takes away the cow and leaves behind her severed tail.

Baby Bonus

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—The editor (and a wise man is he) said he bet if I'd ignore President Truman's inauguration today and write a piece about something else, like maybe sex, the customers (meaning yoi) would appreciate it. So: You remember the item here about the gov ernment chemist who charged that the lumberjacks of Quebec were so busy collecting cash bonuses for babies that they had no time to chop down trees? And how this had resulted in such a shortage of wood. pulp that the price of rayon dresses, which are made from same, are going up? When this dispatch, quoting Dr. Guido E. Hilbert, chief of the Agriculture Department's Industrial Chemistry Bureau, hit Canada, the howl of the baby subsidizers was something to hear. ~Fhey've been tracking me down ever since, using Royal Canadian Mounted “Police without their horses, to inform me that the good doctor may know about dress goods, but is totally ignorant about why Canadians have babies.

Calls ‘Doc’s’ Story Fantastic IN HOPE OF restoring peace between our two nations, and for myself, I hasten to report that Paul Martin, the Minister of Health at Ottawa who pays $250 millions a year for babies, claims Doc Hilbert's tale is fantastic. “It is an old canard we have heard before and

33 per cent higher than it was before family al-

lowances were paid. government there passed a law slipping fathers| we were deeply Intrigued by|from Street in 1936, °° 's dearest friend and fey. gaat with The allowances are not intended and do not extra pay for extra children beyond quartettes.ichecks for $10,000 ‘and $20,000/ McCormack blandly notified us eo Inspector of In- " Pande 4 2 meet the cost of maintaining children. The Wash- Why? : * |Street had written to the creditithat he had just filed an!surance. Charles Carroll « + i "Pender. tax lability totaling ington story is an unwarranted reflection on the “Because large families are traditional in|of the City National Bank & amended return covering the! McCormack ran up to Chicago gast’s chief muscleman."” for 1923 and 1 He initiative and industry of Canadian farmers and Quebec” my man Snapped. Trust Co. of Chicago. 830,000. He had run back to St./immediately with the good news Jpuiity in May of 1538 snd ge loggers. pw That does it. Now I'm going out and got Both checks had. been made | Louis to make the return on! for Street. | “Pm sure I can help,” said "pr 0 and O'Malley. See what you started, Dr. Hilbert? That's only stepped on at some of Mr. Truman's inauguration... .pie to the bank, but the bank July 27. Bomebody had tipped . " » Pendegast. . tell it y andergant a of the warthe beginning. W. J. Leclair of the Canadian shindigs. | records produced didn’t tell what! Alphonsus off, but fast. EIGHT days later McCormack: “How much will it cost?” asked po a \ {had been dene with a total of U.S. Attorney Milligan has got- was back in Chicago talking to Street. |Charles Carrollo,

Lumbermen’s Association, sald log production is at an all-time high. Mrs. D. B. Sinclair, executive

assistant in the National Health Office at Ottawa, |

said she's heard this story before; last time, she said, the baby bonus was blamed for the newsprint shortage. Canadian Newsprint Association at Montreal, said the charge against Canadian fathers was absurd.

length, while an assortment of Canadians now billeted here bombarded me with statistics about Canada’s paid-on-arrival babies. Well, sir, it turns

out that any Canadian, including Eskimos and) |

Indians, who has a baby gets pald for it. The idea, according to the Minister of Health, is to help pay for children’s clothing, food, and

school expenses. So the allowances are a little,

complicated, running from $5 a month for youngsters under six to $8 a month for those between 13 and 16.

Stop-Loss Order Included

THE CANADIAN government also includes a stop-loss order for when a family gets.more than four children, the fifth child is docked §1 per week, the sixth and seventh -$2 each, and the eighth and up $3 per.

Minister Martin's officialdom explains this ap- 011.77, and Just ump had Sisal parent discrimination against super-sized families| peared. That, plus the previously... whom the $10,000 was re- - by saying the younger children can use their|noted $100,500 was reasonably $ [tled?” McCormack told him they elder brothers’ schoolbooks and clothes over again| close to $447,000 or 5 per cent of|

and hence don't need so much money.

One of my informants here said, however, that Compromise had been settled for tive. On July 26, 1938, de dis|T am sure it can be settled with:

this does not hold good in Quebec. The provincial

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TAX DODGERS . . . Last of a Series :

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- The first traffic fatality of 1949 hap {in the Pendleton district. Here chock graphs of another tragedy. Shown are (left to right) Ist Sgt. George W. Doar Phere Charles Epperson and Trooper John Webster. :

to spot the men where they will, per cent, however, met “murder do the most good. on the highway” on State Road Criss-crossing the post are 15 67. :

Pendleton area is

One of the most dangerous and 37. Passing

spots in the Hummels Hill, north of Marion, on State Rds. 9 on the hill and ice take their death toll.

12-County Area Includes Many Dangerous Roads, But State Police Can’t Cover Them All | ds major roads on which a patrol is| Ne

By VICTOR PETERSON attempted. Often, however, a] CONSIDERED the worst road PENDLETON POST, Indiana State Police, Jan. 21—This post man has to travel 35 miles before|in the area, 67 winds through the covers an area of about 5000 square miles, he can investigate an accident post from Marion County to the Weekdays from midnight to 8 a. m. and weekends from 2 to and lend ald. |Ohio State line above Portland, 8 a. m. there isn't a state trooper on the road. There aren't w— Many is the time the distance|ynq, men to span a 24-hour day. has been greater. At times an] If there is need for a trooper, he must be called from home. hour elapses before a state troop-|, a 5 3 Jong haw, but ft There can be no prevention of oon, EERE ———————=—=-"ler can reach the scene, tof the district. From the post at accident after the accident has| . ~indiana State Police are Meanwhile, his area is vacated Pendleton to the farthest point

spread so thinly that the 12 — unprotected. counties of the Pendleton " xn mothe: there is a span of 100

THEORETICALLY an Indiana

27 along the Ohio line also is un~ der supervision. :

NEVERTHELESS, the deaths continue to mount and grussome photographs of carnage the

cpashes : of fresh material for posting. "Post personnel deplore this “murder.” Nearly every day [troopers attend meetings, lectur

It is an old story to state troop-

ers. There are 22 patrol cars for| Post have no protection from . the post. Because of special du-|' Midnight to 8 a. m. This ar- state trooper patrols 50 miles of Road 67, however, is the great-/ing on the hazards of driving. ticle is another in The Times’ road. This does not compare fa- ¢5t problem because of the heavy| They give their warnings. A few

series aimed at curbing wanton “murder on the high~ ways” and probes the problems faced by the men of Pendleton Post.

{vorably with the 10-mile stretches traffic and the motorist's mania hear, many go away unimpressed. {assigned to Connecticut state po- for making it a speedway. Much “If we talk about a bank rob lice. But the Connecticut system Of it now is being converted to a bery, everyone is all ears” Sgt. |pays off, the traffic record is the dual lane highway. The portions Daugherty said. “If we have & lbest in the nation. whith ~ remain three-lane are hold-up and three are killed it | Indiana fails, fails to the point ‘Sucker traps” for that unsus- makes headlines the nation over, Delaware, where there are three deaths and pected date with death. “Hoosiers kill themselves on the Other bad spots which are road three every day. No one watched as constantly as possible pays s\tatition. They Juulk it jes and part of a twelfth. ! The Pendleton st has Its are U, 8. 31 to Kokomo and state never appen them. : "Ad P " = =» It taxes the ingenuity of Lt go... yn 1840 the post was roads 9 and 37 with special atten-| They're wrong, awfully wrong." IT'S A BIG drea covering Ham-| Leo J. Moore, 1st. Sgt. George W. lucky. Deaths pn the highways tion around Marion and between MONDAY: Connersville Post, Grant, Daugherty and Sgt. R. M. Branch'dropped from 101 to 90. Roughly, Anderson and Alexandria. U; 8. Indiana State Police,

more than 15 are on the road during the peak traffic flow from 2| p.m to 6 pp m. Even then it)

er to a county. | Often the number on duty has as low as five men. To

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safety of the residents in 11 coun- Hancock counties. accidents,

caught a plane back to Kansas City and handed the money over to Boss Tom, Five days later the compromise agreement was drawn. up and in another four days it was signed by Gov. Park. a wu » STREET sent another $50,000 to Pendergast. The Boss kept only $5000 and told McCormack to the remaining $45,000 with ley. On Apr. 1 McCormack handed Pendergast $330,000. The Boss peeled off $80,000 and told McCormack to split it with $250,000

remained in Pendergast's posses gion until the bookmakers took it

Mysterious Bank Checks Spring Trap On Pen

Bookies Nick Boss for $250,000 Hartman, Underoath be veered I And Luck Goes Out the Window

checks ($10,000) on the races at {Fairmount Race Track, CollinsBy ELMER L. IREY, as told to William J. Slocum | ville, TI. | SHORTLY after death silenced the one witness we hoped would | McCormack did his solo for the | bring Tom Pendergast before a grand jury U. 8. Attorney Milligan benefit of the grand jury on and Gov. Stark came to ask for Treasury help. They got it. Mar, 17, and it was a sad day | Intelligence Unit agents found that Street had altered his books for Robert Emmet O'Malley and | and that the insurance people had each turned back to Street 5 per| Thomas J. Pendergast. McCor- | cent of the money distributed after the compromise. This amounted mack’s song went thusly: Ito $447,000, close to the rumored | Hts === | One Jan. 13, 1935, O'Malley had | half-million payoff. it with $10,000 and requesting the come over to St. Louis and had | And- os -Apr. 1. 1938, Street|St. louis institution to pay that a talk with McCormack. It was a | had cashed checks totaling $330,(Sum to A. L. McCormack, Pierce pointed discussion, O'Malley ' |Bullding, St. Louis. Our friend opening with, “Do the insurance Street was named as the man|companies want this thing set-

sat Logourt adh k sure did. “Will the Insurance comphonsus Logo rmac jes pay to have it settled?” the total. It seemed the Missourl|,., o gt Louis insurance execu aay thought they would.

5 per cent all right. covered he had received $30,000 Mr, Pendergast’'s help,” said Mr,

$30,000. . Tom Pendergast's luck ten a grand jury investigation Street, and when the conversation “Make an offer,” countered eight ned was finished McCormack called Pendergast. } chief musclumat $98 a “Two = hundred thousand” got two years; Matthew 8. le insurance senttlement. | dergast grabbed the night train Street offered. ray, Director of Public Works for

{called away for a. minute, | McCormack testified and, 'de- and next day sat down with, “Don’t be silly” Pendergast ansas City, the same

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was assisted in its com-(He discovered a telegram ad- sult of 16 years of saving. others, thers seems to|dressed to the First National

. nm THE agent idly flipped through spite the absurdity of his story, Street in Chicago. The scene was suggested. City ¥. a book containing carbons of tele- he stuck fo..it. He had gotten McCormack’s room in the Palmer “Half a million,” said Street.: lgjaq as he was about

grams sent by the Chicago bank. all his 1935-1936 as the re- House. This is what he heard. | “OK,” sald Pendergast, “it's/dicted allure / Street led with a dainty left. a deal” ~ Rad Tor i be

a “Things have sure been tough for’ May 9 found McCormack in was ‘questioned us insurance men in the Missourt Chicago again, where he received | -1§50,000 in cash froth Streét.’ He! (copyright,

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